Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Language is, in short, a hodgepodge of all the worst that the modern slick theatrical comedy has to offer. It capitalizes on smut and unfunny topical references, and does not bother to channel the audience's sympathy towards any of the characters. The character analysis itself is in fact so shallow as to be practically negligible: the Americans are boisterous, self-centered, and of course thoroughly likable, the Italians explosive and over emotional; and that is the end of it. As for the mechanics of the show--Raoul Pene Du Bois' scenery and costumes--there is little to say except...
...important intangible asset is the character of Newfoundland's hardy people. Newfies (a term they use but do not much like) are nearly all natives; 98% were born on the island, mostly of English and Channel Island stock, with generous traces of Irish, Scotch and French. Isolated for centuries, their character tempered by wresting a living from their bleak island and the sea around it, the Newfies have developed into an independent, hardworking, happy breed. Their wit and individuality show strongly in their geographic names. Newfoundland places are called Happy Adventure, Come By Chance, Heart's Delight, Witless...
...Finished 400 miles of new levees on the Missouri and three-fourths of a 9-ft.-deep, 760-mile navigation channel...
...western states insist that enough water be kept in their areas to meet the needs of future development. Spokesmen like Montana's big, bluff Governor John W. Bonner contend that this will be impossible if water is "sucked out" of upper valley lands for a lower basin navigation channel and the huge power dams. Downriver opponents such as Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith reply that proposed irrigation projects in the West may cut off lower valley drinking water...
...Britain's Swimmers Victor Birkett, 26, and Kathleen Mayoh, 20, and Egypt's Bakir Soliman, 26, in that order, over the stormy English Channel, east to west from France, to become the season's first successful crossers...